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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!pacbell.com!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!JUTS!phoenix!gpw10 From: gpw10@phoenixcd.amdahl.com (Gary Ward) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] Only root can login & MAXUSERS > 4? Keywords: Permission denied MAXUSERS 386BSD Message-ID: <5cjK023U24VX01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 1 Oct 92 16:00:06 GMT References: <2AC8B07A.17659@ics.uci.edu> <1992Sep30.071252.4571@autelca.ascom.ch> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 48 In article <1992Sep30.071252.4571@autelca.ascom.ch>, nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) writes: > bvickers@valentine.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) writes: > > >2. I recompiled the kernel, setting MAXUSERS to 16, so that I could > > at least open a few windows under X386, but it still limits me > > to 4 pty's. What have I done wrong? > The number of MAXUSERS is not related to the number of pty's you can > access. > In the config file for your system there is a line containing > something > like > pty 4 > You should change this 4 to, say, 16 and voila, you will have 16 > pty's > devices for X (after creating a new kernel with this config file, of > course). Better yet, change it to pty If you don't specify a number, no arbitrary limit is assigned and you can have more at any time just by making the nodes in /dev (i.e. no additional kernel rebuilds) > I am not sure whether you have to create the devices in /dev or whether > they do exist already. To be sure, look in /dev for *pty* files. > If the don't exist, you can create the device entries by calling > MAKEDEV pty > (or something similar). You should look into the MAKEDEV file to find > out what the exact syntax is. I am sorry to be not very specific, but I > have my 386BSD system at home and I am at work, now. > > Hope this helps, anyway, > > Norbert. > -- > Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland > Phone: +41 31 999 65 52 FAX: +41 31 999 65 44 > Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt -- +------------------------+---------------------------+ | Gary Ward | Amdahl Corporation | | gpw10@cd.amdahl.com | 1250 East Arques Avenue | | Phone : (408)746-8865 | P.O. Box 3470 M/S 142 | | | Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3470 | +------------------------+---------------------------+